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Beaten on the bus? Too bad, say NYC police and prosecutors
By Nicole Gelinas
April 23, 2023
What happens if a stranger attacks you on a Manhattan bus? Apparently, nothing.
New Yorkers worry about the surge in major violence since the pandemic — but “small” violence, too, has exploded, creating an environment of fear.
Isadora Acosta, an architect, was between business meetings March 8 around noon.
After one near Columbus Circle, she stopped at Whole Foods to get groceries and hopped on an M7 bus to drop them off at her Upper West Side home.
“If it’s doable, I would always choose the bus over the subway,” she says, because “there’s been so many subway crimes in the middle of the day.”
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/beaten-on-the-bus-too-bad-say-nyc-police-and-prosecutors/